Posted on 06/10/2006 4:34:29 PM PDT by TexKat
AMMAN, Jordan - The family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi asked three Islamist lawmakers to intervene with Jordan's government to bring the slain militant's body home for burial, one of the lawmakers said Saturday.
"One of al-Zarqawi's brothers asked us to speak with the government," Ali Abu-Sukkar told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "What the family is asking for is legitimate."
The government has so far refused to allow al-Zarqawi to be buried in Jordan because of the triple suicide bombing his al-Qaida in Iraq organization carried out Nov. 9 in Amman, which killed 60 people, mainly Jordanian Muslims.
The three lawmakers belong to the Islamic Action Front, the largest opposition group in parliament, which has links to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.
On Friday, they paid a condolence call to al-Zarqawi's family home in the city of Zarqa, east of Amman. The visit drew condemnation from Jordan's largest newspaper, the semiofficial Al-Rai.
"What will these legislators say to the families of the victims of the Amman hotel blasts?" the paper asked Saturday.
But Abu-Sukkar said it was a "social tradition and religious duty" to pay condolences to the family of a slain Muslim.
"Al-Zarqawi has gone ahead and God will try him and every people based on their deeds," he said.
Though aware of the family's wishes, Jordan's government will not "under any circumstances" allow the terrorist leader to be buried in Jordan and "stain Jordanian soil," a top security official told AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give media interviews.
The Amman bombings sparked widespread outrage among Jordanians who had been sympathetic to insurgents battling the U.S. military presence in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi, who masterminded some of the bloodiest suicide bombings in Iraq, was killed in a U.S. airstrike Wednesday.
Abu-Sukkar said he and lawmakers Mohammed Abu-Faris and Ibrahim Showchy "would issue a petition in the coming days" requesting al-Zarqawi returned to Jordan for burial and "have interested parties sign it."
Such a petition would require a majority of Jordan's parliament — at least 55 signatures — for it to be presented to the prime minister. It appears unlikely that the 17-member IAF bloc will be able to secure a majority.
AP - Sat Jun 10, 9:25 AM ET This photo released by the U.S. Department of Defense, shows Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to the U.S. military, held by a gloved hand after he was killed in an airstrike on the outskirts of Hibhib, near Baqouba, Iraq on Wednesday June 7, 2006. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Defense)
I think that we should send them his body. One piece at a time, 6 months apart.
Love,
Jarhead
I like this king more every day.
"slain militant"????
gag me with a friggin spoon
In a jar of pig fat.
Feed it to the pigs.
Let him be eaten by pigs (like in Hannibal Lecter's 3rd movie).
I have a feeling that the Iraqi government isn't going to be interested in returning the body of someone responsible for so much mayhem in their country.
Send it to them deep fried in pigs fat and special wrapped in bacon strips.
Thank God for gloves!
"Al-Zarqawi's family seeks help to get body..."
Uh, sorry. We already fed it the pigs. Is that a problem?
Booby trap the body, that way when the family comes to claim it, they will get blown up as well,,,,didn't this scum bag zarqawi do the same thing to a family, killed the son and when the father and brother came to claim the body they were killed due to the booby trap.........?,p.
Just send them the corpses of all the people this sub-human maggot killed...
Flush it down the toilet, make a movie of it for the family, and don't tell them which toilet.
I thought that his family renounced him back when he bombed the weddings in Jordan. So what's up with this now?
Don't forget to stuff a pork chop in his mouth.
Does the AP consider anyone to be a terrorist? (Besides the American President, that is).
We killed Zarqawi, the body belongs to us.
After its thoroughly autopsied, DNA'ed and analyzed, it needs to be buried in an unmarked grave in an undisclosed location.
The grave and body of this man cannot be allowed to be some kind of shrine or rallying point for the enemy.
Igor, Young Frankenstein
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